Growth laws for channel networks incised by groundwater flow

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 193-196

  Abrams, Daniel M ^a   Lobkovsky, Alexander E ^a   Petroff, Alexander P ^a   Straub, Kyle M ^a,d   McElroy, Brandon ^b   Mohrig, David C ^b   Kudrolli, Arshad ^c   Rothman, Daniel H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tulane University   (United States)

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EID: 65349130054     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo432     Document Type: Article

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